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L. J. ANGER BREAD. SLIGING MAOHINE.

$10,248,689. Patented Oct. 25,1881.

I 'NITED STATES LOUIS J. ANGER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.,

ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN A.

ANGER, OF SAME PLACE.

BREAD-SLICING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 248,689, dated October 25, 1881.

Application filed September 14, 1881. (No model.)

one operation, and is designed more especially as a zwiebach-cutter.

It consists in mounting a series of very thin knife-blades in asliding carriage which shall support both ends of each knife; and in placing the carriage upon inclined ways, so as to traverse a stationary rack against which the loaf of bread is placed, the weight of the carriage being made thereby to assist in carrying the knives through the loaf.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is 2 5 a central vertical section, and Fig. 2 a plan view, of the machine. Fig. 3 illustrates the manner of securing the knives in the sliding frame or carriage, and Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the carriage detached.

A A is the bed or table of the machine, supported at its four corners upon suitable standards or legs, B B, so as to slope or incline from front to rear at an angle of about twenty degrees or thirty degrees, more or less. Upon 5 this table is placed the knife-carriage O. This carriage consists of a rectangular frame constructed of two iron head-plates, D D, each slotted longitudinally to receive the strainingpins for the knife-blades, (see Figs. 1 and 3,)

,0 and which are provided at each end with an upper and lower flange or coupling-plate, (1, extendingfrom the head-plate D, at a right angle thereto, to receive the wooden side bars, E E, completing the knife-frame.

The lower frame of the carriage, consisting of two side bars, F F, and a transverse bar, F, is connected to the knife-frame D E, so as to form an acute angle therewith, as shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings.

The carriage is completed by standards H H at the rear connecting and bracing the rear ends of its upper and lower frames. (See Figs.

1 and 4.)

Shoes J J are fitted under the carriage, on either side, to fit and slide easily upon parallel rails Q Q secured upon the table, so that the carriage may glide easily along the said rails.

If preferred, the lower bars of the carriage may be fitted with rollers to run upon these rails instead of the sliding shoes. 0

The knives K K consist of very thin steel blades, provided at either end with strainingpins 1? P, (see Fig. 3,) riveted thereto. These pins are led through the slotsin the head-plates of the carriage, and also through apertures pierced in stay-bars m m, fitted into the longitudinal recesses in the head-bars D D, to cover the longitudinal slots therein.

Each blade is fastened by a key, 7:, passing through a slot in the pin, at one end thereof, and by a nut screwing upon a thread out upon the pin at the other end, the nut operating to draw up and strain the knife-blades as required. The intervals between the blades thus fixed in the frame are determined by the apertures in the stay-bars m m; and the knives are kept from turning, and are supported laterally by a strip, S, having slots cut in one edge thereof, at proper intervals to slip down over the blades, and which is placed upon the blades at one end of the frame. (See Fig. 3 of the drawings.)

The rear standards, BB, oftheinclined table are extended up above its lower end to a level above that of the top of the carriage, when the latter is drawn up to the upper end of the table, and strips or plates L L are secured to the top of these standards to project forward over the table to a point over the rear of the carriage when so drawn up. To the front end of these strips is hinged therack M, which. supports the 0 loaf to be cut, and which drops down so that its lower end shall rest upon and against a transverse bar, U, secured upon the table between the rails, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The slots or intervals in the rack M correspond in 9 5 number and position to the blades in the knife frame, so that when the rack drops down upon the table the knife-blades will pass into these slots. An offset, w, projecting outward from the lower end of the rack, serves to support the loaf to be cut or sliced. When the carriage is drawn up to the upper end of the table its further movement in that direction is prevented by stops T T, and it is retained in this position as required by a suitable catch. When the carriage is in this upper position the knifeblades are at the upper end of the rack, and the loaf to be sliced may be readily inserted upon the rack under the knives. The Weight of the carriage more than counterbalances its friction upon the ways, so that when the carriage is released it may be readily pushed forward, and the knives be thereby carried with a drawing out through the loaf, dividing it neatly and quickly into a number of slices of uniform thickness. So soon as the knives have passed the lower end of the rack the carriage is arrested by striking against the rear end of the table, and the sliced loaf remaining on the rack aboy e the knives is readily removed therefrom.

By turning the rack M up upon its hinges the carriage may be readily removed when required for sharpening or adjusting the knives. By supporting the knives on both ends very thin blades may be used, so as to adapt the machine to the cutting of warm soft bread.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of the knife-carriage O and knives k k with inclined ways Q Q and a rack, M, substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth.

2. The combination, with a stationary slotted rack in a bread-cutting machine, of a series of thin cutting-blades passing through said rack at an inclination thereto, and strained and supported at each end in a movable frame, substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth.

In testimony whereofI have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

L. J. ANGER.

WVitnesses:

JOHN A. ANGER, DAVID A. BURR. 

